Nehemiah 8 - Introduction
_THE RELIGIOUS MANNER OF READING AND HEARING THE LAW. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS CELEBRATED._ _Before Christ 444._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE RELIGIOUS MANNER OF READING AND HEARING THE LAW. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS CELEBRATED._ _Before Christ 444._... [ Continue Reading ]
EZRA THE PRIEST, &C.— This Ezra, without all controversy, was the same who came from Babylon in the seventh year of Artaxerxes. After the death of Zerubbabel, the whole administration devolved upon him; but as his commission lasted but twelve years, upon its expiration Nehemiah succeeded to the gove... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT THEY SHOULD PUBLISH AND PROCLAIM— _Which when they heard, they sent preachers into all the cities, and into Jerusalem, saying, Go forth,_ &c. Houbigant. _FETCH OLIVE-BRANCHES,_ &C.— See Scheuchzer's _Physique Sacree,_ tom. 6: p. 6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA THE SON OF NUN, &C.— It can hardly be thought that this festival had never been observed since Jeshua's time, because we read in the book of Ezra, that it was kept at their return from Babylon; but the meaning is, that the joy since that time had never been so great as it wa... [ Continue Reading ]
A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY, ACCORDING UNTO THE MANNER— It is supposed to have been at this solemnity that the notable discovery happened of the sacred fire, related Exodus 1:18, &c. The Jews affirm, that Jeremiah, or some other prophet, had caused it to be hidden in a dry well, a little before the taking of... [ Continue Reading ]